*Library Data S- "silkage". A term to describe any fiber that can be used in fabric or construction that is spun by a creature in a manner of the Terran silk worm or spider, but was produced by a non-terrestrial species.

__________________"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." - General James Mattis.

3 times elevated Knight of the Iridium Throne, Marquis Djar, Marquis of the Solomani Rim (Fafhrd), Count Uakye, and Count Jana.Duke Ninua of the Imperial Core.

Said to be Article 1 of the the grant of original powers by the Imperial Charter to The Emperor Rufus Cornealius Augustus.
[Also known as: Rufus Augustus, or Rufus Cornealius or (more commonly) Rufus the First.]

"The Emperor [Empress] (or an Agent of The Crown having been granted one or more of these powers by His [Her] Imperial Majesty) can create, alter and remove names, warrants, offices, titles, letter patent, ranks, borders, holdings, honors, lands (and certain cases personal property (such as those lands granted as a personal fief as part of Grant of Land Holding conveyed with a grant of Honors and Title or Office)). They may also declare Edicts, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, issue Warrants (both Limited and Unlimited), issue Orders to the Imperial Armed Forces and do whatever else needful (within law and reason) for the survival of the human species and the Imperium, continuation of The Government, Defense of the Realm, and ensuring a peaceful and just Succession of the Crown."

__________________"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." - General James Mattis.

3 times elevated Knight of the Iridium Throne, Marquis Djar, Marquis of the Solomani Rim (Fafhrd), Count Uakye, and Count Jana.Duke Ninua of the Imperial Core.

Last edited by Magnus von Thornwood; November 14th, 2013 at 03:29 AM..

Well, this an ATU which is not based on the OTU, but an old gaming universe of mine.

The year is well, no one is really quiet sure what the Common Era date is somewhere between 8,000 CE to 16,000 to 20,000 CE.

Generally it thought to be around the year 10,000 CE, but there is a couple thousand years of slack either way.

And the OOC thread for questions and such is here, as this thread is for posting of SETTING only posts to keep things clear. Though I guess the date wasn't quiet clear. Then again, I never really thought of any one asking about it. Live and learn.

Players and Others, please be aware this the thread for SETTING only material.

For those interested, I have finally got around to pulling the data for Native Intelligent Life in the Far Stars and of course I started with the Imperium.

So, here I present more additions to the Things I Have To Create list. In fact, I have to create/mod a boilerplate for doing up Sophonts now since I really should have the NIL for the Captial done up. Well, enjoy.

While in the OTU the Sophonts (or Aliens if you will) are classified either as Major or Minor Races according to whether they invented/discovered Jump Drive or not, those that did are the Majors, those that did not are the Minors. In the ATU of the Permatic Imperium a slightly different definition is used. A race or species of Native Intelligent Life is a Major Race if its Homeworld is a Member State of the Imperium, the NIL of Client States or Imperial Domains are classified as Minor Races. The standard TL required to qualify as a Member State of the Imperium is TL-9 (low interstellar), there are of course exceptions, such as Sphic which is has an Imperial County Seat or Ahoma who built and maintain a Class C Starport (with the help of the local Imperial Maquis) in order to show their readiness to join the Imperium. Most states in the Imperium TL-8 and below remain Client States and thus their NIL remain classified as a Minor Race. Not quite all fair and square, but then neither is life, kids.

Looking at the TCs briefly, what a surprise, Ag Worlds seem to breed NIL.

Thanks again to Jim for the excellent and detailed Far Stars Sector *sigh* spreadsheet. It will be super-awesome once I figure out how the damned things work. I do know that when I try and make a chart it crashes the application.

A rough, unfinished, first draft of the map of Permatic, the capital world of the Imperium.

The various Starports are: red is Blackwall Down, the black is Melnauka Downs and the two green are Guild Downs (northern) and Harsh Landing (southern). The arcology near Melnauka is of course The City the rest is in the process of being created.

Hopefully I will have a more finished one soon and will post that one. For a much larger version, click this link.

I thought I had made clear that only active duty personnel can wear their uniforms or use rank or titles, but recent events in the IC thread suggest that I have not. This post is to correct that error.

Only if a being is on active duty is that being authorized to wear the service uniform, or display or use the insignia or regalia, ranks, or titles of an official posting.

In the case of uniforms like a Scout's Shipsuit, without insignia is just a Shipsuit, but when you add the bling it becomes a Uniform. Same goes for military or other Imperial Service uniforms, so if for instance Wally (an ex-Royal Marine) wants to wear his old uniforms sans insignia and unit patches while gadding about the Empire, he is more than welcome.

Uniforms are just clothes till the official stuff gets added. Then, they become Symbols of Membership and Authority.

From now on, just because Earth does a thing or another does not hold that it goes that way in the ATU.

Now, when it comes to Nobs in the Ranks, yes there are such nobles both here on Earth and in my ATU, however in my ATU they do not appear in public in uniform unless they are on duty.

This rule holds true even to official portraits, which is why most Nobs in the Ranks get such portraits done while they are on active duty. There are a sick amount of portraits of current Nobles as lowly junior officers, or them in some sort of Household Forces uniform if senior rank. There are a few such as His Majesty that have portraits of themselves at higher ranks, but they were or in His Majesty's case are still on active duty.

Also, medals are generally awarded in uniform as they are generally awarded to active duty personnel, they do on occasion get awarded after service has ended in which case again it is awarded in formal wear not uniform. Knighthoods and Titles are bestowed in uniform for rare active duty and formal wear for reserve or retired duty.

I know we've had some discussion about this before, but I think it would be useful to make a more comprehensive listing of these, for the purposes of homeworld languages, linguistics and whatnot. Now, obviously NIL would have their own languages, but I'm talking about the human languages here.

Anglic - already known to be the main language of the Imperium.

Slavic - already known to exist and be spoken of [FS 2228] Astana; could also be spoken on some other worlds like [FS 1920] Breslov.

Something derived from Chinese, since it is the most spoken language on Earth?

Something derived from Spanish, since it is the second most spoken language on Earth? Could be combined with Martel's Frankish, possibly.

Something derived from the languages of southern Asia, since those are also spoken by a lot of people on Earth? I've been tossing around my head the idea of an "Arabindic" language consisting of a merger between Arabic and Indian-subcontinent languages.

Something related to Africa or Oceania, since those regions aren't represented in the above?

And we'd probably have some a priori (i.e. not related to Terra) human languages as well.

Also, there are the IAF Battle Languages.

And I agree with your points. For example, the heavy worlder Bibickians have there own language or at least their own Battle Lang.